a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Every polygon can be triangulated into exactly n-2 triangles. So you’ve got the triangulation theorem and the totally opposite theorem in the math universe, Girard’s theorem (the formula for the … Continue reading Dissecting Polygons
Last Tuesday, May 19, was somewhat a historic day as Simon created his first Discord bot (actually, two bots: one that does polls and count-downs and another programmable one that … Continue reading Simon made a discord bot
Simon has recreated the CodingGame.com’s Spring Challenge 2020 PacMan game in p5.js to be able to work on the AI versions after the spring challenge has finished. Link to Simon’s … Continue reading Spring Challenge 2020 PacMan in p5.js
Following up on his Bézier Curve in p5.js project from a couple months ago, Simon created a Bézier Editor: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/4Dj5iq0oh
I’ve worked out a formula for e! This came up when I was looking for an antiderivative, if n isn’t equal to 1: if n is equal to 1, then … Continue reading Formula for e
Thanks to the lock-down, Simon’s got new friends. For a little over a month now, he has been part of exciting daily discussions, challenging coding sessions and just playing together … Continue reading New Friends. New Horizons.
This is what I got from the kids yesterday as my Mother’s Day present. Simon has taught Neva to make little animations in Python. This is another little video of … Continue reading Making small animations with Python turtle
Inspired by the Google Bee Game published on Earth Day 2020, Simon created his own autonomous bee game, “a combination of a cellular automaton and a Turing machine”. Simon’s code: … Continue reading Autonomous Google Bee Game
On April 9, Simon finished his World Science Scholars course “From Chemistry to Living materials” and had his final live session with MIT’s Professor Markus Buehler who works on COVID-19. … Continue reading What do we know: COVID-19 and Protein Folding
At the beginning of April, Simon started working on his COVID-19 epidemic simulation project, implementing a number of scenarios (like various degrees of hygiene, quarantine, social distancing), explaining his code … Continue reading Simon’s Corona Epidemic Simulation Code Along Project
On March 17, Simon started a series of math and coding projects about COVID-19. The first projects he called Corona Math: Why Social Isolation? This is part I of my … Continue reading Corona Math
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